out of space, then fine after reboot

[tcnolan]

Hi...

We had an issue this morning where our server (windows 2000) went down
and the problem was that we were out of space.

I checked the server and we only had 20mb of free space. It should
have been 7GB.

I looked at everything I could think of to see what had taken up all
the free space on the server: badmail, recovery bin, temp files, the
Exchange databases, smtp queues, etc. I check all the directories for
large files that may have been created in the last few days. I
couldn't find anything out of the ordinary. I did some clean up and
got the server up to 1GB. I then rebooted to see if I could get
Exchange to start again.

Everything came up fine after the reboot and when I checked free space
we were back to 7GB?!?

Any thoughts as to what may have happened? And are there server
utilities that would have told me what process or program was taking
all the space?

Thank you,

Terry

 

[Jerold Schulman]

Hi...

We had an issue this morning where our server (windows 2000) went down
and the problem was that we were out of space.

I checked the server and we only had 20mb of free space. It should
have been 7GB.

I looked at everything I could think of to see what had taken up all
the free space on the server: badmail, recovery bin, temp files, the
Exchange databases, smtp queues, etc. I check all the directories for
large files that may have been created in the last few days. I
couldn't find anything out of the ordinary. I did some clean up and
got the server up to 1GB. I then rebooted to see if I could get
Exchange to start again.

Everything came up fine after the reboot and when I checked free space
we were back to 7GB?!?

Any thoughts as to what may have happened? And are there server
utilities that would have told me what process or program was taking
all the space?

Thank you,

Terry

You could have a memory leak and a pagefile configured to grow.

Control Panel / System / Advanced / ....


Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

 

[tcnolan]

Hi Jerold,

Thanks for your reply. I did check the pagefile setting and it is set
at a max size of 2000MB.

I'm not sure about the memory link. We have not had any problems the
last few days.

Terry